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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-11-05

The reason why truth is stranger than
fiction is that ii is much rarer,-Lve,
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-11-05

In the Interests of the Colored People
Of the Country.
Able and well-known writers will contrib
ute to its columns from different parts of the
country, end it will contain the.latest Gen
eral News of the day.
TEE MESSENGER is first-class newspsper
and will not allow personal abuse in its col
umns It's rot sectafian or partisan, but
indepcndent-dealing fairly by all. It re-
serves the right to critcise the shortcomings
Of all public officials recommending the
worthy, and recommending for election such
men as in its opinion ore best suited to serve
the interests of the people.
1t is intended to supply the long felt need
OF a newspaper to advocate the rights and
defend the inter. sts of the Negro American,
especially in the Piedmont section of the
Carolinas.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
CHRISTMAS.

Before our readers will again hear
from us, Christmas day, with all the
endearing ~recollections and hallowed
associations of childhood's gleeful
hours, will have come and gone. All,
the millions of happy little hearts that
will bound with unspeakable joy as
the loving, patient Mama will hang
the little stockings about the room !
And it were worth a half life time of
labor when, after the cracking fire
is built at 4 o'clock in the morning
and the lights turned on, to fall back
in bed and witness developments.
Echoes of soft w~hisperings steal down
the stairway, to be followed by excited
voices as they bound from their warm
trundle-beds and come leaping and
laughing into the o in their night
clothes, with pants, dresses and shoes
in their arms. With nervous fingers
they clutch the stockings-down they
all go on the floor, the stockings are
inverted and the treasures are poured
out Explanations of surprise, pleas
ure and rapturous joy fill the house 4!
Happy Christmas happy children !!
happy parents! But it may be that
just across the way, are little hearts,
that are crushed with the advent of
the saddest of all the days Of the year
it is no Christmas to them. The.
gloom of poverty hangs like a pail
owe their scanty, chilly beds. Glad
den their hearts, We fortunate ones, by
some little presents. And we whose
hearts are rejoicing in the unbroken
circle of a happy family-where there
is no vacant chair, remember the lonely
little ones at Oxford, brownsville and
Charlotte.
Let the old and the young, the high
and the low, the rich and the poor,
make it a happy, joyous occasion.
The faithful editor and the hard
worked printer claim, as is the GUS
tom, to have a slight respite from
their labors, and with the best wishes
of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER for a
happy, happy Christmas, for all it's
readers, it respectfully bids them adieu
until the first week in January.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22

dered him to do? Does the Board
intend to obey the law ?gIf 50, when9
We cheerfully open columns to
the Board or to Commissioner Robin
son for an answer to these questions,
and would kindly inform them in ad-
vance chat they are not the questions
of the editor of The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, but Of the great body of
farmers all over this State, whose in
terests and wishes and views The Pro
GREss1vE FARMER represents.
They believe that they have right
to be heard in regard to the manage
ment Of this Department. They feel
that their wishes have, time and again,
been ignored and their interests disre-
garded, and it is perfectly natural that
they should be watchful, and especially
as to the duties imposed at their in
stance, in the Convention referred to.
Again we say to Commissioner
Robinson and toFthe Board that these
columns are open for an answer to the
question What has the Board done to-
aoatds executing the law IN regard to
Farmers Institutes?
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
VIRGINIA CHANGERS KICKING.

The State Grange of Virginia was
in session last week. The Virginia
Legislature is in session, and the
Grange sent a resolution to the Speaker
of the House of representatives at
Richmond. The resolution is in these
plain words: .s~ [
uAThe State Grange of Virginia,
nowsin session, protests emphatically
and unanimously against the action of
the Legislature in displacing a farmer
by a politician as Commissioner of
Agriculture, and we demand that this
outrage upon.the farmers of Virginia
be righted:@
If it be not "righted" what are
they to do? Where is their remedy?
It.iss. in organization and at the. ballot
box in primary meetings and through
the press. The farmers will, perhaps,
learn something after awhile. They
should cali. for The records and see who
the men are, in legislatures, that dis;
regard their interests and they should
50 to the primaries and to the ballot
box 1solidly,, and consign all such to a
perired oblivion. That would stopn it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22

the true soldiers who followed H.
Stars and Stripes, OF the Southern
Cross, than that which has been 90
happily expressed by our brother Of
the Farm and Home.
We remember. most viyidlv hon,
such sentiments were received bv tho
Grand Army Posts of the city of Bos.
ton three years ago, when uttered in
one of their public meetings bv .
"Johny Reb." You + right, brother
Southern troops fought you like
men and they surrendered like men
They followed their beloved and i'm.
mortal leader through the red blaze
of battle with a devotion and con
stancy and heroism unsurpassed in all
the annals of war, and they have illus.
trated the grand~type of their man.
hood no less~by their quiet acquies.
cence n it's 'e results. DESIGNING
cowardfy demagogues have kept Up
the" war of words" to the utter dis.
gust of true manly soldiers on both
Sides
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
THE NEW SCHEME"ExPOSEI

It will be remembered that we com
mented, in u issue of the lst inst,
on an article which was written from
Newman, Ca, to the Atlanta Consti-
ton, and which was being reproduced
by the Charlotte Democrat and a few
others of our State exchanges. twas
a slanderous TRADE against the Farm
ers' Alliance. We expressed surprise
that ga communication bearing so
strongly and Enthusiastically the dark
impress of bitter prejudice against the
farmers of Georgia, should have been
admitted to the columns of the ordi-
narily fair-minded and astute Consti-
tution." We said of it's author" he is
so: full Of bitterness and prejudice and
hatred towards. the farmers that we
would take even his sworn evidence
in this matter with several grains of
allowance. It would doubtless be
Interesting to know just who this o
respondent is, and in what kind Of
business he'is engaged (if any at ally"
Appearing, al it did, in. the Constitu-
aoa-a paper Of National reputation,
and which is literally. patronized by
our people, and among them many
members of the Alliance, and copied
by somexof our State exchanges, we
felt that justice toa-the. members of
the order; notaonly IN Georgia, but ia
our own State, demanded that the
truth should be made known. Ac-
eordingly, we wrote to a gentleman in
Georgia to know something Of the
7 E,>Et. %#+@- FL fsfri - -s~
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
THE PROPER wAY/ro DO IT.

For years the State Grange of New
Jersey has had what it terms "the
legislative committee It's duty is to
go to the capital during the sittings
of the Legislature and to see that the
measures wanted by the Grange are
attended to, and to ma Ike a report to
the Grange. They have now gone a
step further and appointed a similar
committee to go into the lobby at
Washington and look after their in
terests in that quarter. This is the
only way by which the farmers can
secure legislation favorable to their
interests. Senator Vance told us in
his great speech in favor of farmers
organizations at Fayetteville that
during the fifteen years he has been
in Congress, of all the thousands of
men who had thronged the Hobbies of
Congress in the interest of almost
everything imaginable, he had never
yet seen a single farmer there to work
for the interests of the farmers. 1t
was clearly demonstrated in our own
Legislature last winter, that farmers
must walk boldly up and say what
they want and what they intend to-
have. If farmers can't get seats on
the floor, they must take their position
in the lobby in the committee rooms
and make themselves heard and felt.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22

author of the communication. we
ask the Democrat and other papers
which copied tito give his answer a
place in their columns in %refutation of
the gross Misrepresentation which
they allowed to 60 into their columns
against the Alliance. 1t is about
what we expected and here it is:
CowErA, Co., Ca, Dec. Is, '87.
Mr.. L. L. PoLK-SIR
"Your favor of the 26th ult. to
hand enclosing a clipping from the
Atlanta Constitution. In reply to
your enquiry, I will say that this ar
ticle was written by young lawyer OF
Newman, Ga.,-a sort of migratory
bird-heret today and somewhere else
tomorrow. He has not been in this
county but a short time, and a part OF
that time he has spent in another
county trying to- run a paper. He
made a failure and came back to
Newman. The people in the county
cared nothing about the article. The
merchants of Newman were more In
dignant about it than even the/Alli:
ance.: If he had closed at the/secopd
period, he would have told the truth,
but from that point to the end it is all
false" .-... .... . -.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
DOWN WITH THE "BLOODY
SHIRT"

The following patriotic sentiments
we find in the Farm and Home, an
agricultural journal of decided merit,
published at Springfield, Mass:
"Away with the bloody shirt =
There is still too much effort to keep
alive sectional hatred in this grand
country of ours. There are men and
politicians who seem to regard it
reasonable for our Southern States to
honor those who were their leaders
during the war, either living or dead.
But our friends of the South would
not be men if they did not esteem
their old leaders. The war is long
since past both sides believed they
were right in that conflict the South
was convinced of it's error by force of
arms, and history does not record an
instance in which a conquered people
have more cheerfully accepted the
arbitrament of war. Today the United
States has really nc North, no South,
no East, no West, so intimate is the
relationship existing between the in
dustry, commerce and agriculture of
the various sections. Let us keep our
faces to the front and unitedly work
together to fulfill the destiny which.
lies before American citizenship. Let
us be good citizens rather than bad
politicians. These remarks are in
spired not SO muchfby recent political
event" as by a report Of the exercises
at the unwilling in Richmond of a
statute to the Gen. Lea Christian.
hero, whose memory is treasured by
all who knew him, irrespective of'sec-
tional or party lines"
This sounds very much like the
utterances of an old soldier. While
those who e quiet, docile citizens an
s0ar; but have become blatant, valiant
soldsays in foeaee-those who "sRuffed
the battle from afar'-those who got
desperately mad in 1s65-North and
South-have kept up the nauseous,
disgusting and cowardly wrangle Of
abuse. of opposite sections, there has
been no other feeling in the hearts of
-- -a&
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
OUR BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
AND FARMERS INSTITUTES.

4 We notice that the Boards of Agri-
culture of other States are availing
themselves of tReleisure winter season
for holding Farmefs Institutes. We
find a list Of APPOINTMENTS, made by
the Missouri Board, embracing six
teen counties in that State, and to run
!. well up into the month of January.
) This is as it should be. These Insti-
tutes are Of great value to the farmers
and are most highly appreciated by
them, when properly conducted. We
have never seen them evince more in
terest than in these meetings.
! It will be remembered that among
the amendments to the law governing
our Board of Agriculture, which were
proposed and recommended by the
Farmers Convention of last January,
was one, saying that our Board should
cooperate and aid in the formation of
Farmers Institutes in all the counties
Of the State and made it the duty of
the Board to send the Commissioner
Of Agriculture and the State Chemist,
or some Of the faculty Of the Agricul-
tural College to form and operate
these Institutes. This amendment
was proposed in that Conventional
was adopted and the committee of the
Convention took it to the Legislature
and it was Incorporated in the law.
But how has the law been observed?
The law was passed in February and
nearly ten months have elapsed, The
farmers in that Convention were in
earnest. They did not leave their
homes in distant counties and come to
Raleigh to pass meaningless resolu-
tions, and, to "scare" the Legislature
and return home. It was not that
character or class2of. men, who com
posed that body. They want Farm
eers' Institutes. They thought that
possibly the Board could find some
thing by which the time. of the Com
missioner could be prlooftably employed
and they believed that, THIS was one Of
the ways@@by which it could best be
done. The Legislature agreed with
this view of the Convention and
adopted the suggestion and made it
law. Mr.. Robinson was,put in charge
as Commissioner in the month of
April. What has he done in this
direction ? What has the BsardYor.
.Ii.3sst
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
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GOVERNMENT CONTROL VS..
INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORA \
u TIVE MONOPOLY. lCl

H. TIVE MONOPOLY. I'LL
I The Farmers National Alliance, at
its session at Shreveport, laid down as
one of it's demands, \that the General
Government should operate telegraph
and telephone lines\ as adjuncts to
the U. S. Postal Service. The Knights
of Labor, and we believe other labor
organizations, have done the same
thing. That nan who cannot see the
dangerous strides withwhich monopoly
is driving us to anarchy and ruin, is
blind. Almost every day we see an
announcement in the papers Of the
organization of some powerful monied
" trust" or syndicate, for the absolute
control of some article or commodity,
which the people cannot possibly do
without. Whittier ale we tending7
DQthe people appreciate the danger ?
Are our representatives in Congress
alive to the peril which environs us 4?
Where is to be the limit. to this cank-
erous greed of monopoly R. We are
no alarmist, but the signs of the times
are ominous of evil. @:"'.
We are gratifed to e that n
man, at least, in the u. S. Senate
seems to comprehend the danger, and
has introduced a bill looking to the
accomplishment of the object sought
by the Farmers Alliance. 1t was in
troduced by Mr.. Cullom and provides
for the establishment and operation Of
a United States postal telegraph, pro-
vides for ten trunk lines of telegraph,
embracing all cities of the States and
Territories. The bill provides that
the lines shall be constructed by the
army engineering corps, under the
direction of the Secretary OF War, on
iron poles, with a capacity for twelve
wires, and shall when completed, be
transferred to the control of the Post
MASTER General. The Secretary of
War shall, if he deems it expedient,
take possession of the lines now used
for military purposes as a portion Of
the system. The rates to be charged
are ten cents for twenty words, under
five hundred miles, and five cents
additional for each. additional ten
words, and for distances greater than
five hundred miles, an additional rate
of five cents for each $50 miles. Press
night rates are to be thirty:fve cents
per one hundred words, and day rates
IS cents per 100 words. The Office
of director-general of telegraph is
created, the appointment to be made
as is that of an assistant postmaster
general, with like salary. The ap-
appointee must be apractical telegraph
man, of at least ten years experience.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22

The Progressive Farmer is the
Official Organ of the N. c. Farmers
Association and N. G. State Farmers
Alliance. :.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-22
RALEIGH, N. c., DEC. %, 1887

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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-28
mANAasR PoFrER.


sxonma ABOUT Tan FACTION mErwKnN
KEM AND RREuDKNx ADAMS.
BkN fRAncIaco, eapt. 97.-sinoa A..
euminG tue management of The Union
Pacific fios President Potter has stirred
40 q hornets nesi. 60 10 spaak. md Al
s0Fts Of stortea Ahnui fgioalon betwaan
himaelf and President Adams are foaf-
ipg aFound, even as far West "a thfa
city. An instance 81 thia friction hna
Just come 90 lieht here. Potter ha0
discharged Charles Adams from 4 po-
sitloa be held IN the cfleo Of the rosd
81 ssls Lake City. President Adams a
bis sunole and the young man immeai-
atelg appfisad him OF his remosei.
PendlnG 90 answer FROM his relative Ne
eame 70 this city on 4 short Visis. Isast
Friday be received letter and showed
Il 70 gentleman living here. u vas
from President Adams and contained
instruction 20 The yennQ man 10 ianoFa
Potter, and for hin 10 bic himself bach
70 Eait Lake City, where be would set
biz old position back. Young Adama
lofl f0F the East last Saturday.
Another story about the Potter raeims
q thai when Potter took charge of az
fairs be made high olIioeF Of the read
his assistant. The latter is rich man
and Of much infnenes, and Potter has
practically rodnoed him 90 q oiapknhip.
A well known railroad man explained
20 reporter today: when Potter BE-
came connected With the Uuion Paeifa
q vas 90 his own solicitation. and the
DlFeetofs agreed 20 give him one years
trial. Il ls nov about aix moniha since
Potter began 70 manage she road, and /
know, % . certain extent. that Pfesi-
dent Adams and Po1tsr are hardly un
speaking tsFma. ! also know thar had
fuss over the appointment Of Tibbetfa
~ General Passenger Agent, and BE-
tried 70 fosoe Assistant General Msna-
Qeg q. 81. OummiDRs 10 the wall, boa
Adams put bis foot cown on The scheme.
Tue nexs meeting Of ste DlrssloFs will
be held Ia April, 1858, aud from ths
turn Affairs have tnken. either Potter o.
Adams mast g.. Tbs general fmpreg.
sion prevails that it uill Be the former
who will step down and out, for, NOS
wiihaiandina bis abiilty as q railroad
man, be ID NOT ns valuable an tfliaaal 10
The company a. Adams H. Wah Rns-
Ter out Of the road, . number Of good
railway ofsloials thns be has cold hlood.
ediy sat down upon uiil assume The po-
sliions 20 which their ability entities
thenn
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-28
'THR MiNFORD PlRFT.
Great Future for the North.
west Proclaimed.
Disssatisg oplzioa - Jsars Hoena..
wsrus wrssk sa sAs Mehns a.a
0Aio-ElxAs saaH BsyaLnut
and Founa- -sasam
ssAsssar.


oF xM1 NuAIHwnaT.
aAE FnANulsoo. Sspk. 9-san.s,,
stanford and party, consisting az calo-
1el y =. C1ookeF, Geaeral Nenneep
y. 4ogne, o. toe eoalheFn Paoiae. ara
ara stanford. returned aodaV f4on
tns@ two week4 t0nF 90 Portland mnd
otneE poinla In The nnrthwnnA.
Ooleael Crooker safa thar All haa a
ds.iantiui llme. TIE trip uas n,alle no1
70 build railroads % 60 prnj .ol her AR
tuen matiers Wefa noe % b hssailv a..
sefmtneo, hat 20 ses the oonnfrv ana
tee ge1oral lay oe the land anrnnwh
sn.en NE neaily cnmpleled railroad llna
ave waEa plsasansly us,.,.a an .,o,,
ne line" said be. and and a. evefV
point We stoppsd ths eitirsna n,el -
and 1roso ~ N oarRiaaea anonf - enr-
rounding country. At Aahlnnd ~ -.
snsersssneds a. Albsuy. 81 seattle. A
roFe Townsend, a Vi0loria. wa wand
from Niceofia on the Ialand Railwav.
~ milea across, 10 shs Wellfnoton go
mlneg. and inspected ehoea vninsk,Is
coal oepo1ita In Portland wa net ~.
efAt railroad men. among them Mana.
ger hoicomh, of ehs Oregon Navsaaaion
gompany, GeDerai Anderson. nennnA
Viee President Of She Northern Pneiec.
ana aeheta We decided q huild In.
medtateiy q bridge aoross ths villa
meese Fiyef from East Portland 70 Port.
iaao aad % erect depot on ne nlto
which the Company haa owed for
.eme time. The depot viii be 4 uuscn
ospoa for the Northern Paollan. Oreaon
nssseaaiou Company and Oraaon q
California"
"kbat . . magnificent oountrs.s p nsid
Senator Stamford. aIl cannot ha an
pseeieied unless seen. A greater conn
tsy have never seen. Such wondered
scsneKys 81 may call II UNIQUE. IA
menntAina are stnpand0ua. most car.
eainiy think that all thnt vast northern
region hAs before IL q great fatnre. The
people there are enterpFisinp and they
are y gFeat Rlee over the faoi thai onr
toao u about completed. Hiihakfo
they have been Get OF from oommuni
cation with she rest ef Sha Unlaed Slatea.
nuh shis trunk road. whioh will ian MI
oinef arteries Of travel, will 40 much
toward bllldlnR up their country. Ore.
Ron and Warrington viii enter npon 4
nev era Of pFosperity.n